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Barylambda

An extinct genus of pantodont mammal from the middle to late Paleocene, well known from several finds in the Wasatchian (NALMA classification) DeBeque Formation of Colorado and the Clarkforkian Wasatch Formation to Tiffanian Fort Union Formation in Wyoming.

Three species of Barylambda are currently recognized. The creature likely lived a life similar to that of a modern tapir, browsing on foliage and soft vegetation. Barylambda seems to have been quite successful for an early pantodont, though eventually it seems to have been replaced in its ecosystem by other pantodonts, such as Coryphodon.

In life, Barylambda probably resembled a large ground sloth, with a small head and long, well-developed tail and bear-like legs. It was a large animal weighing around 650 kg (1,430 lb), about the size of a pony. Barylambda was large even for a pantodont, sheer size probably protecting it from contemporary carnivores.

Like other pantodonts, Barylambda was a heavyset, five-toed plantigrade animal. The vertebrae of the tail were unusually massive; the living animal may have been able to rear up and support itself on the hind legs and tail in order to reach higher for food. The generalized appearance of the teeth, the presence of well-developed canines only in males, the grinding wear and lack of shearing blades on the molars, and the animal's heavy build strongly suggest that it was herbivorous.

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Art by Gabriel Ugueto 

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DAY 8 - BARYLAMBDA

Barylambda faberi, a large (for the time) herbivorous Pantodont, an extinct group of eutherian mammals, notices you as it grazes while reared up on its hind legs and balancing on its thick tail in the western United States during the mid Paleocene-early Eocene (~60-50 Mya)

Probably going to do the rest of the month without color unless I'm feeling extra motivated, otherwise I'll burn myself out way too fast lol

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Atlantis Phase III is here. Over the next few weekends we will put together the ecosystems of this island during the late Pleistocene, based on community submissions.

On Atlantis limestone caves and lave tubes are equally inhabited by a wide variety of creatures. Some of them permanently inhabiting the dark.

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Paleovember 2023, Barylambda!

This strange animal, roughly the size of a pony, was the largest known member of the pantodonts, one of the first groups of large mammals to evolve in the Paleocene, right after the extinction of the dinosaurs. Barylambda itself was the largest animal in its environment; it's powerful tail would have allowed it to rear up on two legs to reach it's preferred food of soft vegetation and other foliage. Males also possessed a pair of canines for intraspecific combat.

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a quick barylambda for practice

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Atlantis Phase III is here. Over the next few weekends we will put together the ecosystems of this island during the late Pleistocene, based on community submissions.

Oh look, it's the swampy bois and their murky home.

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Atlantis Phase III is here. Over the next few weekends we will put together the ecosystems of this island during the late Pleistocene, based on community submissions.

The truncothere steppe includes the most megafauna of Atlantis. Large herds of coronolambdids (cimolestids), hippolambdines (pantodonts) and of course truncotheres (pantodonts) roam the plains.

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Truncotheres are a clade of animals endemic to Atlantis, they lead to Plato writing about the presence of elephants on the island. In reality these are pantodonts, a clade of animals that went extinct elsewhere at the end of the Eocene.